Wednesday, March 26, 2003

The U.S. ambassador to Canada took the unusual step on
Tuesday of openly criticizing Ottawa for not backing the war on Iraq
and urged Prime Minister Jean Chretien to muzzle anti-U.S. sentiment
in his government. ...

Several members of Chretien's ruling Liberal Party have uttered
anti-American comments and Cellucci said he was upset that no one had
reprimanded Natural Resources Minister Herb Dhaliwal for a "totally
inappropriate" comment last week that President Bush had failed as a
statesman.

Celluci, known to Massachusetts residents as the former governor
who flew the coop for the Canada, leaving the state's finances in a
mess (in other words, in all respects a typical Republican governor),
also implicitly threated trade retaliation for Canada's lack of
support, telling reporters that "security will trump trade, there is
no doubt about that".